Casa de Maria Publisher: WRITE...REFLECT...REIMAGINE
Write…Reflect…Reimagine Ⓡ is the official podcast of Casa de María Publisher, an independent publishing house committed to amplifying diverse and underrepresented voices.
This podcast series is a sanctuary for emerging and established marginalized writers, poets, and screenwriters seeking both inspiration and practical strategies to navigate the publishing world.
Each episode features powerful conversations with published authors, visionary poets, and industry professionals who have carved their own path in a system that often overlooks their stories.
Listeners will gain access to behind-the-scenes insight, creative routines, and actionable advice—from writing residencies to manuscript pitching, self-publishing, traditional routes, and everything in between.
Casa de Maria Publisher: WRITE...REFLECT...REIMAGINE
Episode 3: Voice, Craft, and Cultural Integrity
In this episode of Casa de María, Dr. Vilma Luz Cabán reflects on what it truly means to develop an authentic voice as a writer—one rooted in lived experience, cultural memory, and ethical care.
Building on the previous conversation about writing as witness, this episode explores how truth is carried onto the page without being flattened, translated, or shaped to meet external expectations. We examine voice not as performance or imitation, but as a relationship—to language, to memory, and to the histories that have shaped us.
This episode invites listeners to consider:
- What we mean when we talk about “voice” in writing
- Why voice can feel unstable, especially for writers from marginalized communities
- How craft can support truth rather than constrain it
- What cultural integrity asks of us as storytellers
- How to resist stereotype without avoiding complexity
- The difference between writing from truth and writing toward expectation
Listeners are invited into a quiet, reflective space—one that honors nuance, patience, and care. This is a conversation about writing that refuses simplification and about trusting the language that comes from where you stand.
As the episode closes, listeners are invited to reflect on where they may have adjusted their voice in order to be understood—and what it might mean to listen more closely to what remains true.
In the next episode, we turn toward memory itself: how it returns, how it shapes narrative, and how memoir asks us not only to remember, but to choose.
